About

Rakesh Nair is a highly skilled Business Advisory Specialist in Recruitment at Accenture with over 10 years of experience in talent acquisition. He has expertise in IT and Non-IT recruitment for India, China, UK, USA, Europe, Australia/NZ, and the Middle East region. Rakesh is a planner, strategist, and implementer and has vast experience in devising policies and plans for improving business performance, streamlining operations, and achieving overall organizational growth. With his strong start-to-end recruitment experience, Rakesh has been successful in setting up sourcing strategies/frameworks using job portals, recruitment vendors/agencies, social networking (LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub), and employee referral programs. He has driven superior results in tight schedules and worked efficiently, providing talent fulfillment solutions for new and existing projects. Rakesh has a rich exposure in bulk hiring for IT clients, finance, infrastructure support, and KPO by managing the account and stakeholders for various verticals and clients. Rakesh is active on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, and Github) from an employer branding perspective to create and sustain a pool of passive and active candidates relevant to skillset. He is also skilled in vendor management, stakeholder management, and team management. With clear company vision in mind, Rakesh has been managing teams for the last 3 years, providing effective communication and direction to the members to achieve goals. He has set goals/daily focus and provided hands-on assistance and guidance to achieve the set goals and beyond. Rakesh has a strong HR skill set, including organizational development and recruitment, human resource management, performance management, employee engagement, compensation and benefits formalization, and joining formalities. He has end-to-end experience in managing vendors from MSA signing and onboarding to VMS and contract renewals, providing timely feedback, duplicate check-in ATS, negotiation, and review of vendor performance. Rakesh has experience with VMS such as SAP FieldGlass and Oracle HCM. Rakesh has worked with companies such as EAI Systems and NCR Corporation, where he managed start-to-end recruitment for niche technology, support, and infrastructure skills for the UK and India. He handled a team of 5 recruiters based out of Mumbai and Hyderabad and managed end-to-end non-technical and technical hiring for across levels (junior to leadership) for different departments/functions PAN India. Rakesh has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Marketing from